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SUBMITTER: Nash RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215583 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nash Robert A RA Berkowitz Shari R SR Roche Simon S
Applied cognitive psychology 20160921 6
Researchers have proposed that planting false memories could have positive behavioral consequences. The idea of deceptively planting 'beneficial' false memories outside of the laboratory raises important ethical questions, but how might the general public appraise this moral dilemma? In two studies, participants from the USA and UK read about a fictional 'false-memory therapy' that led people to adopt healthy behaviors. Participants then reported their attitudes toward the acceptability of this ...[more]